caput

Definitions

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. The head; also, a knoblike protuberance or capitulum.

n. The top or superior part of a thing.

n. The council or ruling body of the University of Cambridge prior to the constitution of 1856.

from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. In anatomy, the head; the head or upper extremity of some part of the body.

n. An abbreviation of the phrase caput senatus (literally, head of the senate), a council or ruling body in the University of Cambridge, England.

n. In Roman law, the standing before the law, or the personal status, of a citizen.

n. A fanciful term used by the old chemists to denote the residuum of chemicals when all their volatile matters had escaped; specifically, oxid of iron, which is the residue left when sulphate of iron is distilled at a red heat. Hence— Anything from which all that rendered it valuable has been taken away.

Christian spirit, are like salt that has lost its savour, like that which the chemists call the caput mortuum, that has all its salts drawn from it, that is the most useless worthless thing in the world; it has no manner of virtue or good property in it.

Agreed; we've lost some of that lovely interaction between the two. (For example, I had to ponder whether to put a comedy tag on diecast and let someone come across it however much later, or whether to try to work it into something worth a comment.) Maybe John could be prevailed upon to add tags back into the comment pages, in proper Wordie style.

"The duplication of effort in the nuclear family is directly connected to the family's role as the principal unit of consumption in consumer society. Each household is destined to acquire a complete set of all the consumer durables considered necessary for the good life and per caput consumption is therefore maintained at its highest level."- 'Women and power in Cuba', Germaine Greer in The Madwoman's Underclothes.